﻿A Secret Alchemy: further reading

I think bibliographies are out of place in a novel, because where the facts come from is not the point of fiction. But the late fifteenth century is a very fascinating period in history, both socially and politically. These are some of the books which caught my interest while I was working on A Secret Alchemy and I thought might interest others. i

The Yorkist Age, by Paul Murray Kendall, Penguin

The Paston Letters, edited by Norman Davis, Oxford Classics

Consuming Passions, by Phillipa Pullar, Penguin

A Taste of History, by Maggie Black, British Museum Press

A History of the Wife, by Marilyn Yalom, Pandora

Pilgrimage in Medieval England, by Diana Webb, Hambledon & London

The Wars of the Roses: the soldier’s experience, by Anthony Goodman, Tempus

The Last Medieval Queens, by J. L. Laynesmith, Oxford University Press

Arthurian Myths and Alchemy, by Jonathan Hughes, Sutton

Elizabeth Woodville, by Arlene Okerlund, Tempus

Edward IV, by Charles Ross, Yale University Press

Elizabeth Woodville, by David Baldwin, Sutton

Towton 1460, by Christopher Gravett, Osprey

Tewkesbury 1471, by Christopher Gravett, Osprey

Who’s Who in Late Medieval England, by Michael Hicks, Shepheard Walwyn

Britain’s Royal Families: the complete genealogies, by Alison Weir, Pimlico